This piece explores the human connection to memory, identity, and transformation. The lumberjack, endlessly chopping a pencil, symbolizes our attempt to shape or sever ties with the past. But no matter how hard he works, what emerges is still rooted in the origin—it’s all pencil.

I chose the pencil as a metaphor because it holds a duality: it carries a history, yet it also holds the power to write a new future. “Lumberjack” is a reminder that while we are shaped by where we come from, we each have the agency to carve a new path—one word, one line, one stroke at a time.